I Caught a Shiny Pokemon Before Each Badge

I've always had the idea of wanting to complete a shiny badge quest in a Pokemon game: a challenge where you have to catch a shiny Pokemon before each badge. I decided to give it a shot in Pokemon Scarlet and see just how easily you could do it. This video took a lot of time and effort to put together, so I'd really appreciate it if you shared this with a friend. If you have any suggestions for the next video, leave it in the comments below! Have a great day :)
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[@JohnstoneYT]

Thanks for watching! You can download Pokemon UNITE with this link and take advantage of the Pokemon Day benefits! (Do it and I'll be your best friend

[@RealSkello]

That’s crazy you actually got sponsored by the Pokémon company. You make some of the most entertaining vanilla Pokémon content out there and I’m glad they took notice

[@Mewtwo_150]

TPC sponsoring Pokemon KZbinrs instead of having them removed from the site? Never thought I'd see the day...

[@joelsifilis]

You set the bar so high with the shiny professor oak… I think we need another 😁

[@sharkronical]

How long does it get to unlock every character in Pokemon Unite

[@jojorussell2649]

Can you do a badge quest for heart gold or soul silver

[@ryan5858]

SPONSORED BY POKEMON?? HUGE W

[@mrman1051]

Pokemon unite tho

[@paulgilliot564]

HUUUUUUUGE W I'm so shocked and happy for him

[@pokemontrainer6941]

They gave out their sponsorship to every poketuber and their mother, it's not that huge

[@Exelfy]

@@pokemontrainer6941 it’s still huge no matter what you say

[@andyredwine8403]

@@pokemontrainer6941 so you got one too then huh?

[@vitohoor]

John came a long way, having TPCI themselves as sponsors is a great milestone. Congratulations!

[@ParkotivoL]

So, fun fact : the company decided to sponser a bunch of poketubers in order to promote the Pokemon Day. If you watch a lotta them you'll realize

[@nickloll3939]

​@@ParkotivoLdoesn't change it being a major accomplishment

[@CtrlAltBacks]

​@@ParkotivoL Yeah i noticed that i think with nokimon and shiny catherine. Pretty cool accomplishment.

[@ParkotivoL]

@@nickloll3939 in some way it is i dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@matsuda_blossom2704]

@@ParkotivoL it’s a major accomplishment because TPCI could’ve chosen to sponsor bigger poketubers.

[@StickMaster500]

The Pokemon Company saw your Pokemon Let's Go Shiny video and had to sponsor you as a reward. Really have come a long way Johnstone, proud of you!

[@fanojuyg]

Hey you still exist? Wow

[@rithmcuber3241]

not really, theyve sponsored nokimon and many others aswell. they want unite to regain traction, that’s basically it.

[@AtomicxxJM]

Unfortunately a lot of Poketubers have had this sponsor too this week

[@locomokuu2471]

@@AtomicxxJM how is that unfortunate? Sponsorships fund creators

[@AtomicxxJM]

@@locomokuu2471 I wasn't saying the sponsorship was unfortunately more that John was not only one. It was an unfortunate comment regarding the above comment who was incredible excited for Johnstone thinking only he got it for the shiny video.

[@MGlBlaze]

I actually didn't know they made Magikarp's shiny metallic in this game. I really like all the new PBR effects and how they can change the aesthetic of a pokemon so drastically.

[@staydetermined6717]

Agreed! Look at forrestress and scizor! :D

[@yommmrr]

Yeah everything metallic looks so sick imo.

[@Whiteythereaper]

Just wait until Metagross in DLC 2

[@nicolascaicedo4411]

I think it got the reflective treatment because of the scales it has

[@staydetermined6717]

@@nicolascaicedo4411 Makes sense

[@AbsolBlogsPokemon]

So awesome to see you do a badge quest!! I hope this inspires more people to take on this challenge.Really love how we both independently decided to take on the starters as a finisher Also huge congrats on the big sponsor!!! well-deserved for everything you do

[@TheTitaniumSamurott]

Yeah it's going to be really cool to see more people try out a badge quest for the first time!

[@alikaisdead]

Yo what's up Matt

[@mcpikachu_bob3876]

Johns doing a badge quest and you a doing a professor oak. Are we in a opposite world

[@MagiCarson08]

Hi Matt.

[@Emily-lh6em]

Ayye it's Matt.

[@wooloosus6866]

32:02 I just noticed the disguised shiny zorua actually flashes the color of the shiny pokemon it's disguised as after you fight it, that's such a cool touch! Also it's really nice that they made it so that you can't knock out a shiny in the quick battles.

[@KingMe-qz2hr]

Pretty sure that’s just the red glow that appears on a Pokémon you target with auto battle, looking purple on the blue murkrow

[@wooloosus6866]

@@KingMe-qz2hr oh damn I think you're right, wow it really looked like it flashed shiny, that's a funny coincidence lol

[@joao_felipe]

36:25 Please, I need to see John trying to collect every (possible) medal in Pokémon B2/W2

[@mewblue1505]

@@Strawberry_Wolf7088 correcting someone and being wrong is crazy

[@Ihateeveryone831]

@@Strawberry_Wolf7088 they are talking about something else not the Pokémon.

[@Ihateeveryone831]

@@Strawberry_Wolf7088 haha

[@imploder14]

The most impressive part of this video is being able to see a shiny Tauros on the overworld

[@segahen]

Fr, every tauros looks shiny to me 💀

[@nasiersteven5164]

It is a large milestone for a Pokétuber to be sponsored by Pokémon… also Fletchling is the first Pokémon I caught in my shiny only

[@ajackley8076]

In a single day I found a shiny dreepy, terountula, and gumshoos

[@TheNetflixGamer]

This was great! I’ll never understand why they removed any overworld indication of a shiny

[@Whiteythereaper]

They didn't really remove it, moreso the Game Freak staff working solely on SV didn't implement things that the staff working on Legends put in that game like mass releasing, free throwing Pokeballs with free aiming, etc.

[@TheNetflixGamer]

@@Whiteythereaper Was there an overworld indicator of a shiny in lets go? I dont remember

[@staydetermined6717]

@@TheNetflixGamer Sparkles would “float” around the Pokémon

[@patricgmuer2988]

They probably didn’t put it in because of performance issues

[@3amhellbeast]

I think because then it would make it a bit too easy 😅 Shiny pokemon in this game are already really easy to get, if they had an indicator then that would make it too easy. That being said, I wouldn't mind some kinda audio queue or even a slight visual queue, but they don't really need both.

[@ConnorKrohnicles]

I was always curious how people count encounters in games like this, let’s go, and legends arceus. Seems a lot more difficult than counting traditional encounters

[@peach23786]

Same here

[@Dunkelwald_]

I lnow that AbsolBlogsPokémon uses a footpedal now and just taps along as he sees new pkm. Dunno how John did it, tho

[@samperez1727]

Let's go tells you the streak at the end of every encounter (but you must catch to continue the combo unless you run away).

[@samycerbet]

Note: Fletchling is not quad weak to rock. It is not fire type yet. Amazing video either way. :)

[@ajoysco4434]

I love that he has a random yellow shiny following him around too, shiny swablu keeps popping up for me just like his shinx duo lol

[@Dunkacciino]

Good to see John getting a sponsor from Mr. Pokemon himself

[@thomasjay3291]

Pretty fitting after you talked about unite, you got the first shiny of this journey, and it is one of the starter options in the game.

[@Trans4Hire]

I still haven't found any shinies in Violet, I'm colorblind so I have a hard time seeing them, not to mention how small some of them are, I really miss the shiny noise from Legends

[@tornadey018]

People often forget that fletchling is in fact a normal type.

[@ditto_gang3178]

Water is wet

[@Lucifronz]

@@ditto_gang3178 How is that applicable? It's not obvious at all. It evolves into a Fire-type Pokemon immediately. It's something most people don't remember or even notice to begin with.

[@MegaOwy123]

Congratulations on the sponsor! Always love the videos you put out, keep up the great work!

[@HippoCrisis]

I hunted varoom and I concur that it makes you constantly think "wait, is that one gold..?" while refreshing the spawns, when a shiny did appear it was *super* obvious. There were a couple of hunts I did like that but I can't think of another example right now haha. Side note I also failed multiple donzodo and gyarados to them spawning in the background and immediately vanishing. Not sure if because swimming or giant models...

[@leigeorain]

I get super paranoid when I'm hunting shinies with similar colors even though the shiny is very much distinguishable from the normal mon, so I have to keep telling myself "if you're questioning whether it's shiny, it's not shiny, move on"

[@JACKPheonix]

I love the reasons for your final team. It’s all about what makes the game fun for you and I’m here for the ‘picked them because I liked them’ vibes

[@AstroidmaniaVideos]

A POKEMON SPONSOR, let's go John!

[@ElectroBlastLuigi]

First Wolfe Glick got sponsored, now Johnstone. These two really came a long way.

[@XanderIsALoser]

Super cool to see you take this on, you got a lot of really cool shinies!! Would love to see you take on this challenge in HeartGold/SoulSilver, with it’s similar amount of badges and the snappy starter hunt. Also we know that second Toedscool’s name. You can’t hide from us, John.

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

I’m so jealous of the life size cyndaquil plush. I wish I had one.

[@zanefangirl1012]

Very nice video, I enjoyed it a lot. I'm shocked your Glimmet did not self-destruct on you. Because every Glimmet I've tried to catch has blown up on me.

[@TheTitaniumSamurott]

Yoooo really cool to see John do a Badge quest! Also congrats on getting sponsored by Pokemon!!!!!

[@c.k.6737]

Can't believe you found shiny shinx so fast... It took me at least 100 hours to find one in Arceus, and I still have yet to find one in Violet. TWO SHINX.

[@justjay4586]

I, too, absolutely love Donphan. He's just an absolute unit. Really needs some more love than the Paradox mon.

[@SuperSushiman13]

YO A POKEMON COMPANY SPONSORSHIP?!?!? Well deserved man! Congrats on all the hard work paying off!!

[@polyphoenix7725]

14:00 This has happened to me as well, i think its a coding quirk with the mass outbreaks that leads to increased odds of nearby pokemon with the same type

[@gizoginjr]

As a fellow shiny Glimmora owner, I wholeheartedly agree that it is one of the finest shinies in existence.

[@mythaniakeroberos2405]

Made me happy to see your first be Fletchling, as I also ran into a Full Odds Fletchling at the start of my game. Also congrats on being sponsored by TPCi.

[@DannyRayqu]

Now I kind of want Johnstone to make a shiny badge quest for every new pokemon game

[@Holon25]

Yo congrats on the sponsor. It's nice to see them supporting content creators now.

[@dwilly8408]

How were you documenting encounter numbers while running around so much for random encounters? Congrats on the sponsorship too!

[@davidgamboa1260]

Commenting to also know!

[@SinisterPixel]

Only thing I can possibly think is unless he was just counting clusters, he had a hotkey bound to a footpedal or something and was just tapping it as he counted them to increase a counter.

[@Zahuranecs]

Same though!

[@mr.lafitte336]

I love shiny Klawf, my favourite of this gen and i was really happy when i was able to capture one. I named him "Bluff".

[@jamescristiano1331]

My boy has come so far. I remeber watching your videos way back in the day!! I keep coming back and binge wathcing them all over again

[@All54321]

I had no idea you can reroll during out breaks via a picnic, so thanks for the info. I was hunting for Zorua at the moment, but wanted a break from hatching eggs so I decided to look at outbreaks to try that method. Upon coming to a Noibat outbreak I decided to hunt that. And than a few minutes later you decided to hunt them too. Which is funny.

[@Besh091]

Finding so many shinies was my experience playing Violet for the second time, too. I've never tried to shiny hunt or anything, they just kept appearing. At one point, I literally deposited one shiny (I'd evolved it all the way), turned around, took four steps, and found another one. I've never had that happen before, not even the first time I played Violet or either time I played Scarlet. Absolutely wild.

[@arcticdino1650]

Congrats on the Pokemon Company themselves sponsoring you!

[@just_a_pkmn_guy7666]

what a big step for you man, huge congrats. this is really BIG video

[@mr.merleb]

First time coming across your Chanel and all I can say is you have more than earned my subscription, follow and like. Great job man :)

[@SamPeiffer]

Such a cool idea to do as a play through. Noticed Your team is mostly yellow shiny! ✨😎

[@imSethy]

I spent a lot of time at launch hunting for Scizor and it was so worth it. The lighting changes make it so nice

[@TheBreathingFire]

Loved this video concept :) also would love to see this type of challenge on hg/ss so you can see the Pokémon follow you :)

[@susanmires1522]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE continue making these shiny videos

[@kulert4777]

Phanpy is my 3rd favorite Pokemon behind Girafarig and Quilava. Glimmet was the first shiny I found in Pokemon Violet and its one of my favorites. Drifloon was the first shiny Pokemon I caught in Legends Arceus and I nicknamed my shiny Dirfloon Goodyear as well.

[@Lilfiredude]

Did anyone else notice that he kept referring to fletchling as quad weak to rock and weak to water as if it were a fire type?

[@imanolrodriguez841]

Really appreciate it I just bought a switch and got on Pokémon without even knowing how to play and you gave me a good “what to do”

[@unrulyhunter6074]

THANK YOU, if it wasn't for seeing this video an hour ago I would not have recognized the FULL ODDS nacli I just saw and caught! Cheers John!!!!

[@colecannon6143]

How do you track your encounter numbers so easily? Do you count each pokemon you see by hand?

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

I'd say you could always do a round two of this challenge, as random shinies are random shinies. The only one you got that you were 100% for sure going to get was Fuecoco given shiny breeding is basically a guaranteed shiny, so doing another round of this could very well get you the other targets you did aim for. My only suggestion is a no dupe clause so you don't have to deal with finding a multiple super common shines like the Pawmi line or in your case Shinx. Anyone doing these sorts of challenges use that as to keep their teams diverse.

[@ditto_gang3178]

Wym guaranteed?

[@caiusdrakegaming8087]

@@ditto_gang3178 It's nearly impossible to fail getting a shiny with Masuda method. You will get it eventually and the only 'fail' condition is the game closing before you can save after the shiny hatches. It's the safest shiny hunting method in the whole series.

[@cl3fable479]

@@ditto_gang3178 you keep hatching eggs and get a shiny. when doing outbreaks you aren’t guaranteed to find what you’re looking for, which you can see in the video

[@lxlsquidgaming3803]

Great video as always, but every time John mistook Fletchling for being Fire Type like its evos (Claiming it was quad weak to rock and weak to water) it made me wanna shake a tree and have a coconut fall on my head

[@lycanthropylive]

new john video out on my birthday, i feel so spoiled! good work as always, and congrats on the pokemon sponsor :)

[@Feuerfee1113]

Would love to see you tackle this in HGSS south the cute charm glitch! If your leading party member had the cute charm ability, your shiny odds are really high (don't know the exact number on top of my head). I think it's one of the few games that give you a boost to shiny odds this easily.

[@LuBa01]

Actually its not that easy. The cute charm glich only happens when your TID and SID are very close to each other (e.g. TID 62279 and SID 62281). So to make this possible you have to rng abuse your TID at the start of the game, otherwise you probably wont get a TID/SID combo close enough to eachother to activate the glitch.

[@Whiteythereaper]

He's already done it. The current video he's working on is catching a shiny via every odds increasing method (besides manipulation) and after doing Gen 2 breeding, the Odd Egg and Pokeradar he showed off Cute Charm in HGSS last weekend

[@Whiteythereaper]

@@LuBa01 Gen 4 RNG manipulation is the easiest to do thanks to it being purely calendar based

[@LuBa01]

@@Whiteythereaper BW rng abuse is the easiest. I was refering to that it is early impossible to get this glitch working without rng abusing the TID.

[@Missiletainn]

Flectling isn't quad weak to rock moves, it doesn't become fire type till it evolves, it's just normal flying.

[@polzinaj]

Congrats on the sponsor. Oh, and the badge quest too :)

[@juniorthelichch.]

This really inspired the heck out of me, I loved this video and wanted to do the challenge myself! I'm excited to put my video together and see how different the runs ended up being.

[@wispykitty5548]

Out of curiosity how are you keeping track of the encounters? I love to know for my own shiny hunts ♡

[@parkymann]

This is really cool! I'm wondering, how did you count your encounters?

[@chunchunmaru935]

With numbers 💀

[@Band36Alt]

​@@chunchunmaru935 I mean at a point it seems like too much to keep track of

[@nokti...]

​@Band36Alt not really if you've got a physical counter or a counter app tbh

[@emmettreynolds]

Yo congrats on the Pokémon Company sponsor!!! I’ve been watching since my first year in uni with your PO challenge in gen 2. So happy for you dude!!

[@tormartinmortensen9576]

I am really happy that you chose to try and get shiny Klawf, it was my first full-odds shiny in gen 9, and I really like it

[@dopechincilla]

I know this isn’t the case but you’re the only KZbinr I’ve ever seen actually sponsored by Pokémon. Pretty incredible accomplishment. You tiers above everyone else at your craft.

[@TheAnimeMan]

W sponsor

[@kkrstudios]

I always wonder, how do you count the number of encounters before every shiny?

[@pgrane16]

Amazing video as usual. It would be awesome to see you doing this in other games, like crystal

[@miles6492]

I myself am also trying to do a shiny-only run on HeartGold and I've been resetting for literal days for my starter and I'm so deranged at this point that during this video and the LGPE Shining Oak challenge video I've been waving my DS in front of my computer yelling "BLESS MY STARTER WITH THE SHINY LUCK JOHNSTONE" in the goofiest voice you can imagine for like an hour, like imagine a really Southern version of Vinesauce Joel's Swedish Hillbilly voice. Please bless me Johnstone I'm desperate.

[@alexpollan1934]

Does anyone know how he counts his wild encounters for open world hunts?

[@isabellabassham2591]

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY INSANE IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE!!!!

[@chalkprinc3]

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but the whole time John thought Fletchling was a fire type when it's Normal/Flying... so it was 100% capable doing the Magikarp outbreak, and wasn't 4x weak to Klawf

[@pvm0212]

You inspired me to make one, too. I have 7 badges so far. For my starter, I went for Rookidee and actually got him. I didnt hunt on Poco Path since I didnt really like any shinies there. My other encounters so far are Psyduck Tadbulb Flamigo P. Wooper Larvesta Cufant And now Im hunting Gible. Edit: Found Gible Followed by random Hariyama while grinding Followed by a Marill while looking for Hatenna Then Hatenna Then a random Nymbke while grinding Followed by Rotom And a super fast Pawniard But I didn't use outbreaks so far since I've been so unlucky with the pokemon for them. But now I will try to get a Cetoddle with one Edit 2: Got Cetoddle Followed Aqua Breed Tauros! I can't believe I got him I assumed I'd get regular one!!! Followed by Toedscruel who took so long Finally I also bred my starter Skeledirge, although I used the masuda method and got it in 7 eggs!!! This was a super fun challenge. I might even do a bonus hunt in area 0

[@SailingSwampert]

My dream career is working at Pokemon Company International, once i heard the sponsor was PCI I got super excited. Absolutely love your videos, can't wait to see more from you, very excited to drop in some streams and shiny hunt watching them.

[@eeveebest11]

He thought the 3rd shiny would take a while: "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" I guess not then.

[@thedragonauthority]

It's always a great day when you upload a video. It would be fun to see this challenge in bdsp. Looking forward to future vids.

[@colleengrant3466]

Congratulations on the sponsorship! GGs on the cute shinies!

[@ASoulphoenix]

Congrats on the sponsor and can't wait for the shiny hunts in the DLC

[@sneakyraptor1469]

You got shiny Clodsire! I got one in my first playthrough and its the only shiny I got, he was my main through the entire game as I got him early on. Shiny Clodsire, the MVP

[@evanhovan]

Great video!! I always look forward to them :)

[@PoppaTiddy]

You opening the pause menu in front of shiny Cufant with 'picnic' hovered scared the crap out of me. Instant flashbacks... R.I.P. Orthworm, the one that got away

[@starlytesvids8811]

I'm so sorry for the loss of shiny orthworm 😭😭😭 my twin got a full odds shiny orthworm lol

[@Brightwing_]

Cetoddle and Cetitan are my favorite shinies ever and my favorite gen 9 Pokémon 😊 I was very happy when you caught it!

[@CocoBat]

Love ur content always will love the shiny vids so much the hours u spend on these vids is crazy desver all the likes and subs cant wait for further content

[@Pubstompclipps]

Literally deserved every bit of this sponsor!

[@TheTitaniumSamurott]

So this is why John was hyping Unite on stream so much LMAOOOO

[@chadyourmaxdashdaddy]

Bro got the whole Pokémon company to sponsor him??? That’s bragging rights for life

[@Divineskiez]

Congrats on such a great sponsor!! I love Pokémon unite

[@glitzsz]

you inspired me to do this same thing too. been wanting to for a while but now i am about to do it. thank you

[@TfromO]

everytime you were looking for a shiny and you got a different pokemon full odds, it was a yellow shiny. those are my favourite

[@doggo4078]

Yoooo a Pokémon sponsor? You’re going up in the world john

[@rodo9813]

I think you could do this in Legends Arceus but use the nobles and obtaining rides as points in the game to get a new shiny Pokemon.

[@maxwellwilliams1802]

John pulling the big boy sponsors out here. Congrats man

[@OrenjiArms]

one of my coworkers actually had this playing at work which is how I knew you had released a new youtube video lol

[@AxG24163]

8:44 😂😂😂 Are you kidding me! 😂🤣🤣

[@hallujaccu]

bro got sponsored by pokemon company. good shit john 😊

[@CodiusRed]

my first random encounter this game was a noibat. I was very happy to see you got one on your team.

[@naffy_0558]

You and Nokimon posting on the same day makes today a great day

[@SEH_ARTGOLD]

Great video. I worked on a shiny living PaldeaDex. Dunsparce & Tauros flame breed were the quickest for me. Dunsparce was the 6th encounter at a mass outbreak & Tauros i wasnt looking for i just wanted a certain nature for a fighting type play through... he was the third egg hatched.

[@siryeet1236]

Shiny noibat is such a W and you’re the only person I’ve seen using it. Thank you for spreading the awesomeness of shiny noibat

[@SauceMcGavin]

Firstly, just wanted to say I absolutely loved the video. Something caught my eye! At 7:00 was that a Shiny Magikarp all the way to the right?

[@annevanmeeuwen7995]

Thought the same thing. But could just be the reflection in the water..

[@aibdan-si7fk]

Proud of you, John! 😊